Re: d-i, debootstrap: possible fix for 116801: (local components)

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Junichi Uekawa 

| Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> immo vero scripsit:
| 
| > aj and I discussed how to make it possible to get install packages
| > from local components.  aj isn't too happy hardcoding anything, so the
| > patch in 116801 isn't acceptable.  I need to be able to install
| > base-config from a local repository, so I need a fix for this.
| 
| What do you need to do ?

install a patched base-config from the net or cdrom.

| Wouldn't it be possible to just create your own apt archive with
| only minimal packages to fool debootstrap into thinking that it is
| the "real" archive?

no, please read the bug logs for 116801.

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